My most recent stories for Jane's Defence Weekly and International Defence Review

Here are my most recent stories for Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's International Defence Review.

*Japan presses ahead with ATD-X programme
The Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will begin manufacturing the airframe of the Advanced Technology Demonstrator - X (ATD-X) fighter...
11-Nov-2011

Japan's TRDI reveals details of 'Shinshin'
A senior official at Japan's Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) has briefed Jane's on new details of Mitsubishi's next-generation Advanced Technology Demonstrator-X (ATD-X) ...
11-Nov-2011

I wrote that Japan is eyeing at developing the sixth-generation fighter, called the F-3, as neighbouring China and Russia are accelerating efforts to deploy their own new fifth-generation multi-purpose fighters.

The Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) is about to start manufacturing the airframe of the Mitsubishi Advanced Technology Demonstrator – X (ATD-X) fighter known as ‘Shinshin’ “very soon”, Lt. General Hideyuki Yoshioka told me on November 4.